Will Ottawa stop funding roads? Minister pressed after contentious comments
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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he 'should have been more specific' in controversial comments that the federal government will no longer be funding road infrastructure.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault insists the federal government is funding new road projects, despite comments earlier this week suggesting otherwise which have infuriated Conservative premiers.
On Monday, the environment minister told a crowd in Montreal “our government has made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure,” according to quotes published in the Montreal Gazette.
“There will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the road network. The analysis we have done is that the network is perfectly adequate to respond to the needs we have.”
When pressed by reporters two days later, Guilbeault said he “should have been more specific.”
“Of course we’re funding roads,” he said Wednesday. “We have programs to fund roads, but we have said — and maybe I should have been more specific in the past — is that we don’t have funds for large projects like the trosième lien.”
“We need our roads to get our goods from our farmers to market. We need our roads to get our kids to school, we need our roads to get our kids to school,” said Strahl. “It’s an extreme position from an extreme environment minister.”
“But we should expect that from a guy who scaled the CN tower, climbed on top of a premier’s house and was led away in handcuffs” added Strahl.
While Ontario’s Conservative Premier Doug Ford said he was “gobsmacked” by Guilbeault’s remarks.
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